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Report comes a few months before the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow, Scotland.

Selected projects will undertake their research at a facility off the coast of Oregon.

The remains of a village in Scotland, which is supposedly haunted, has gone up for sale for offers over £125,000 ($172,859).

Marine energy’s current footprint is tiny compared to other renewable technologies like solar and wind. 

The importance of ports to the sector was illustrated by a number of announcements this week.

The hacker group DarkSide, which was behind the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, claimed on Wednesday to have attacked three more companies.

The U.K. economy contracted by 1.5% in the first quarter of 2021 as nationwide lockdown measures continued to weigh on activity.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce that the government will push ahead with the next stage of lifting lockdown in England.

British Transport Police say three people died and six were taken to the hospital with injuries after a passenger train derailed in northeast Scotland after heavy rain and flooding

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